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Author: Sean Guest

Chicago Cubs: Productive offseason gives fans reason for cautious optimism

February 28, 2023 Sean Guest Baseball, Team Contributors

After a year spent in the wilderness, the Chicago Cubs gave fans reason for cautious optimism this offseason. I say ‘cautious’ because although Tom Ricketts actually opened his much-maligned chequebook over the winter, it’s still difficult to gauge just how

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Jason Heyward: The Cubs won the battle but not the WAR

October 5, 2022 Sean Guest Baseball, Team Contributors

Seven years on, it’s easy to forget that the Chicago Cubs’ decision to sign Jason Heyward to an 8-year, $184 million deal in 2016 was met with media fanfare. Jesse Rogers of ESPN described the outfielder as “an all-around player

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Making Sense Of The Willson Contreras Conundrum

August 9, 2022 Sean Guest Baseball, Team Contributors

Just when you think you’ve got these Chicago Cubs pegged, something happens to blow that perception out of the water. Take last week’s trade deadline, for example. It looked for all the world as if Jed Hoyer would move Willson

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Home Run Derby X: Revisiting Geovany Soto’s incredible rookie year

July 7, 2022 Sean Guest Baseball, Team Contributors

While the last decade was unquestionably one of the best in the entire history of the Chicago Cubs, the one that preceded it was far from the worst. In 2003, the team won the division and looked set to end

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The Chicago Cubs do not have the resources necessary to compete in 2022

June 20, 2022 Sean Guest Baseball, Team Contributors

I’ll admit that I felt a degree of optimism when Cubs Chairman Tom Ricketts wrote to fans back in October, stating “We have the resources necessary to compete in 2022 and beyond, and we will use them.” Like the bulk

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Revisiting Jake Arrieta’s monumental 2015 season

April 25, 2022 Sean Guest Baseball, Team Contributors

In 2015, a year before they overcame the curse, the Chicago Cubs were, on paper at least, a bunch of scrappy outsiders. The hiring of Joe Maddon, the free agent signing of Jon Lester and the emergence of prospects like

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Willson Contreras is both the player and personality the Cubs need right now

March 31, 2022 Sean Guest Baseball, Team Contributors

Despite gutting their roster at last year’s deadline, the Chicago Cubs “have the resources necessary to compete in 2022 and beyond,” and will use them, according to Tom Ricketts. While the signings of Marcus Stroman and Seiya Suzuki have gone

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With the core gone, the Chicago Cubs can finally move on

March 20, 2022 Sean Guest Baseball, Team Contributors

After months of speculation, the curtain finally fell on one of the greatest eras in the storied history of the Chicago Cubs this week. If social media is anything to go by, some fans still weren’t quite ready to let

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Chicago Cubs make a splash. Who saw that coming?

December 7, 2021 Sean Guest Baseball, Team Contributors

The Chicago Cubs made a big splash in free agency last week, landing Marcus Stroman on a three-year, $71 million deal. In the eyes of many, including The Athletic’s Keith Law, the righty was the best pitcher on the market

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